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Managing Partner & Co-Founder

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Tenant advisory

Andrew Nicholls

San Francisco, California

Tenant advisory leader helping companies turn real estate decisions into flexible, scalable operating advantages.

Advisor Snapshot

Focus

Focus

Tenant advisory, portfolio strategy, site selection, leasing, dispositions

Markets

Markets

San Francisco, Bay Area, and global portfolio assignments

Client Types

Client Types

Startups, public companies, nonprofits, healthcare, technology and global occupiers

Specialty

Specialty

Flexible real estate strategies that support operations, culture, and cost discipline

Background

Background

13+ years in tenant advisory, with leasing exposure across 40+ cities and 15+ countries

About

His work blends market intelligence, financial analysis, labor and location strategy, and steady negotiation. Clients rely on him to create real options, avoid avoidable risk, and structure decisions that remain useful as a company scales.

Andrew co-founded Resource to raise the level of partnership tenants receive from their real estate advisors. He leads the firm’s tenant advisory practice with a service style shaped by hospitality, corporate advisory, and years of representing companies whose space decisions have real operating consequences.

His work blends market intelligence, financial analysis, labor and location strategy, and steady negotiation. Clients rely on him to create real options, avoid avoidable risk, and structure decisions that remain useful as a company scales.

How They Help

  • Advises leadership teams on site selection, office leasing, renewals, relocations, and portfolio decisions.

  • Builds tailored strategies for cost control, flexibility, headcount planning, culture, and growth.

  • Uses comparative market analysis, financial modeling, and negotiation sequencing to improve outcomes.

  • Coordinates complex multi-market requirements while keeping the client experience clear and personal.

  • Advises leadership teams on site selection, office leasing, renewals, relocations, and portfolio decisions.

  • Builds tailored strategies for cost control, flexibility, headcount planning, culture, and growth.

  • Uses comparative market analysis, financial modeling, and negotiation sequencing to improve outcomes.

  • Coordinates complex multi-market requirements while keeping the client experience clear and personal.

Representative Work

  • Co-founded Resource in 2023 as a boutique tenant advisory and brokerage firm focused exclusively on occupiers.

  • Previously served in CBRE’s Global Tenant Advisory practice and as a tenant broker at Cresa.

  • Has advised companies including Flexport, One Medical, UserTesting, Obscura Digital, Madison Square Garden, Motive, Peregrine, BitTorrent, ASCO, and Strattam Capital.

  • Co-founded Resource in 2023 as a boutique tenant advisory and brokerage firm focused exclusively on occupiers.

  • Previously served in CBRE’s Global Tenant Advisory practice and as a tenant broker at Cresa.

  • Has advised companies including Flexport, One Medical, UserTesting, Obscura Digital, Madison Square Garden, Motive, Peregrine, BitTorrent, ASCO, and Strattam Capital.

Perspective

What I'm watching: the best tenant strategies create more future choices for the business, not fewer.

Credentials

  • California Real Estate Broker.

  • Florida Real Estate Sales Associate.

  • BS, Finance, Real Estate and Hotel Administration — Florida State University.

  • California Real Estate Broker.

  • Florida Real Estate Sales Associate.

  • BS, Finance, Real Estate and Hotel Administration — Florida State University.

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